Long Relationships

Last week I asked you to send in your stories. The stories of your love, your life, your time with your significant other.

The first entry I received wasn’t quite what I had in mind when I asked, but I think it is so creative and sweet, I’m going to put it up anyway. Enjoy.

Our two characters (and such characters!) are named Anastasia and Sebastian. And until only a couple of years ago, they hadn’t the vaguest inkling that the other existed. How strange then, that the poor lad Sebastian would become so enamored with Anastasia that she would never be far from his thoughts and dreams from the day they met until this very moment.

This entire story is true. Only the names, places, and events have been changed.

#1 – “Summer Loving” - from Grease

Sebastian met Anastasia at work. Or more accurately, on the way to work. Somehow, field work fit both of them perfectly, and the hour ride to and from the fields allowed such conversation that started a friendship unparalleled in this century. The farm season ended, and the two promised to call on each other throughout the following year despite attending separate schools. And so they did.

#2 – “There She Goes” – The Boo Radleys

Sebastian finished his summer and entered his school year in an unprecedented high. Anastasia was undoubtedly the cause. A happier girl he had never met, and there was something about everything she did that made Sebastian the happiest guy in the world. When he had to leave for a weeklong vacation soon after the season ended, the withdrawal symptoms nearly killed the two. At the end of the summer he asked her if she would be his, to which he received a regretful rebuff. Already displaying its incredible strength, their friendship remained intact.

#3 – “All For You” – Sister Hazel

Anastasia captivated Sebastian. (more…)

I thought it would be appropriate to tell you a little about my relationship, given I’ll likely be talking about my husband and our lives a lot. (The picture is of my wedding ring.)

I met my husband online through our mutual online friend in October 2005. We hit it off right away, falling in love over casual flirting and a lot of science. I was, unfortunately, with someone else at the time, but I knew I wanted B in my life and that we couldn’t be just friends.

He and I officially became a couple not long after we were introduced.

After a year of many emotions, learning to maintain a long distance relationship, phone calls, texts, and video chats, we began planning my departure from the US. We made an agreement that I would fly out there and we would give being together in person a try. If it didn’t work, I would move into the spare room until I could find a place and job of my own.

Thankfully, it worked out fabulously. One night as he was at his computer and I sat on the couch playing on my laptop, he suddenly spun around and got on his knees in front of me. I looked at him, confused, and then he asked me to marry him.

We got married on May 5th of this year.

This is a very much shortened version of events, but I could write pages about the progression of our relationship. More of the details will probably come out in my future posts, anyway.

I would like to invite all readers here to send me the story of your relationship. Be it only how you met or the entire story up until now. Feel free to send it to me either by using the “contact me” button under the site description on the right or by emailing me. I’d like to start posting up a story each Monday.

(Feel free to send me what you send Lyndsey for the contest she has!)